Ehrenhausen | |
Settlement Type: | Former municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Austria |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Austria |
Coordinates: | 46.7264°N 15.5844°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Austria |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Styria |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Leibnitz |
Parts Style: | para |
Area Total Km2: | 3.03 |
Elevation M: | 258 |
Population Total: | 1019 |
Population As Of: | 1 January 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 8461 |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | +43 3453 |
Website: | www.ehrenhausen.at |
Ehrenhausen is a former municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Ehrenhausen an der Weinstraße.[2]
Ehrenhausen lies on the Mur river in southeastern Styria south of Leibnitz close to the border of Slovenia.
The district was at one time the seat of a branch of the Eggenberg dynasty and the Schlossberg to Ehrenhausen features the mausoleum of Ruprecht von Eggenberg and his nephew Wolf von Eggenberg which was designed by Italian painter and architect Giovanni Pietro de Pomis, who was the court painter and architect of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.